If you watched Clannad (regardless if you enjoyed it) watch Afterstory.
It will definitely change the outlook on the series.
Great arcs (my favorite is the underrated Yoshino Yusuke) and very great writing, a beautiful soundtrack, beautiful animation, not so amazing English dub but that's what subs are for, and good characters
--------Spoilers starts here------
But the ending, oh my god. Seriously? That was best you could do Jun Maeda (writer). Basically erase everything that happened and made all the events in Afterstory never happen.
That was horrible.
The entire series you saw a girl (resembling the main character's daughter Ushio) and a robot. It ended up tying up with this stupid light orb crap that made every time sunshine happy which brought his (later on) dead daughter and wife back to life.
I'm sorry but seriously?
I believe Jun Maeda could of done this instead and Clannad Afterstory would of have been amazing.
The girl symbolized Ushio and her bringing her father out of a depression of losing his wife, the robot is able to walk again (meaning to be happy) and live with Ushio.
There was no reason to bring Nagisa (the main character's wife) back to life. That was like giving the fan base a cookie, you don't give the fan base a cookie. You give them a series to enjoy, not this extra sappy crap. (But I do love cookies so thank you Mr. Maeda. But you should kept Nagisa dead)
The main character could of gone through so much more and so much greater character development is Nagisa never came back to life and Ushio lived.
That is one of the reasons I like the movie better, it actually does that.
----Spoiler over-----
Anyway regardless of my rant, great anime.
It will definitely change the outlook on the series.
Great arcs (my favorite is the underrated Yoshino Yusuke) and very great writing, a beautiful soundtrack, beautiful animation, not so amazing English dub but that's what subs are for, and good characters
--------Spoilers starts here------
But the ending, oh my god. Seriously? That was best you could do Jun Maeda (writer). Basically erase everything that happened and made all the events in Afterstory never happen.
That was horrible.
The entire series you saw a girl (resembling the main character's daughter Ushio) and a robot. It ended up tying up with this stupid light orb crap that made every time sunshine happy which brought his (later on) dead daughter and wife back to life.
I'm sorry but seriously?
I believe Jun Maeda could of done this instead and Clannad Afterstory would of have been amazing.
The girl symbolized Ushio and her bringing her father out of a depression of losing his wife, the robot is able to walk again (meaning to be happy) and live with Ushio.
There was no reason to bring Nagisa (the main character's wife) back to life. That was like giving the fan base a cookie, you don't give the fan base a cookie. You give them a series to enjoy, not this extra sappy crap. (But I do love cookies so thank you Mr. Maeda. But you should kept Nagisa dead)
The main character could of gone through so much more and so much greater character development is Nagisa never came back to life and Ushio lived.
That is one of the reasons I like the movie better, it actually does that.
----Spoiler over-----
Anyway regardless of my rant, great anime.